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Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies

Hardcover

Series: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities

Women's Health

ISBN10: 0742533573
ISBN13: 9780742533578
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Oct 1 2005
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers' bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood have inherited the legacy of that era. As a result, mothers are socially positioned in ways that can make it difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.

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